A few chapters in and I was thinking 'wow, this is so dry and boring' so I decided to go see if any other reviewers agreed with me. When I began reading, I knew very little about it. The thing is, Sky in the Deep feels like one more in a long line of shallow and emotionless fantasies. I might be lying about this, but here's hoping I can restrain myself. I'm going to read Ash Princess and a couple of other ARCs I've committed to, but after that I'm going to start being much more selective and stop being seduced by pretty covers and exciting blurbs. Okay, I think I might need to step away from YA fantasy for a while. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one.ĭriven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and find a way to forgive her brother while daring to put her faith in the people she's spent her life killing.ġ 1/2 stars. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother's friend who tried to kill her the day she was captured. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan settling in the valley, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved Aska clan, which is rumored to have been decimated by the same horde. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered.

Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed rivalry against the Riki clan.

A sky in the deep